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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag was detected near Isangel in Vanuatu

Posted by admin on November 23, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location -20.1807S, 169.6615WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 81 kilometers (50 miles) from Isangel in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 169.6615 East, latitude -20.1807 South, depth = 123.48 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us70006c1n. Event ids that are associated: us70006c1n. The temblor was picked up at 13:33:12 / 1:33 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 23/11/19 / 2019-11-23 02:33:12 / November 23, 2019 @ 2:33 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 123.48 km (77 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Isangel (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 81 km (51 miles) from Isangel (c. 1 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 81 km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 169.6615° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -20.1807° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 123.48 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 81km SSE of Isangel, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-11-23 02:33:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-11-23 02:52:07 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 660 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 432 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.13 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 53 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70006c1n Id of event.
Event Code 70006c1n An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70006c1n, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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